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The Kremlin’s Oil Company Has a Man in Trumpland

SELLING LOUTS

The longtime political operative and veteran diplomat is the man some of Russia’s biggest interests turn to for help, and Trump goes to for advice.

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MOSCOW—Over the past 25 years, local Russian businessmen have learned that they all need one thing to survive: a krysha, or “roof,” or, in the ever-applicable mafia parlance, protection.

Three years ago, on March 6, 2014, the U.S.

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